Raspberry Pi releases Pico W with WiFi support

Raspberry Pi has announced the Pico W, Pico H and Pico WH. The Pico W module has support for Wi-Fi 4, but the bluetooth capabilities are not yet activated. Raspberry Pi has sold nearly two million Pico computing boards.

The Pico W includes Infineon’s CYW43439 chips to support Wi-Fi 4, or Wi-Fi based on the 802.11n protocol. The chip also supports bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy, but Raspberry Pi has not enabled this connectivity. The organizations indicate that they may do this in the future.

At the same time as the Pico W, the H and WH . appear† These are variants of the Pico and Pico W that have headers and a 3-pin connector for debugging purposes. All Pico models are built around RaspBerry Pi’s own RP2040 microcontroller, with two Arm Cortex-M0+ cores running at 133MHz. There is 264kB of SRAM present.

The Pico W costs 6 dollars, the Pico H 5 dollars and the Pico WH 7 dollars. At the beginning of this year, the original Pico appeared, for a price of 4 dollars. RaspBerry Pi claims to have sold nearly two million of that module.

On the left the Pico W, on the right the Pico H